AWS CloudFormation Designer

AWS CloudFormation Designer is a tool that lets you create and edit CloudFormation templates using a graphic user interface. Designer hides a lot of the complexity of editing a CloudFormation template using a standard text editor. You can access this directly at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/designer, or in the CloudFormation dashboard after you click on the Create Stack button, as shown here:

The workflow is fairly simple. You simply drag and drop resources from the left-hand side menu into a canvas.

Once your resources are added, you can then connect them to other resources using the small dots ...

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